US Patent Issued to Optotune Switzerland on Dec. 23 for "Arrangement for a tunable lens" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,620, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Optotune Switzerland AG (Dietikon, Switzerland).

"Arrangement for a tunable lens" was invented by Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland), Wolfgang Zesch (Dietikon, Switzerland), Alan Cortizo (Zug, Switzerland) and Erik Hebestreit (Regensdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an arrangement for a tunable lens, which comprises a deformable lens shaping element (1) with a central axis (2) and a radial axis (5) and with a perimetrical edge (3) that extends about the central axis (2) and wherein the perimetrical edge (3) is designed to interact and mechanicall...